Human Resource Officer at BRAC Tanzania

Human Resource Officer at BRAC Tanzania  

Human Resource Officer at BRAC | May 2024  
BRAC Tanzania – Dar Es Salaam  
Career with BRAC International

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organization, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone can realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organization of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As the world’s largest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first program outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002 and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC uses a holistic approach to development, employing a wide array of programs and social enterprises, including microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender, and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created, that potential is unleashed, allowing even the poorest to become agents of positive change in their own lives and communities.

BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania, part of this leading development organization, began its operations in 2006 in Tanzania, focusing on thematic areas such as agriculture, youth and women empowerment, food security, and livelihood. BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania aims to decentralize Human Resource Operations to increase efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery, thus enhancing organizational productivity. This role contributes to the development of base strategies, which are translated into action plans and daily tasks.

Position: Human Resource Officer  

Location: Dar es Salaam

MAIN JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Recruitment and Selection:

• Receiving approved manpower requisitions from the Talent Acquisition Manager to initiate the recruitment process.
• Arranging interviews for successfully shortlisted candidates.
• Collecting all necessary documents from new staff and issuing contracts.
• Ensuring that all probation reviews are completed within agreed timescales.

Maintenance of Staff Files:

• Conducting appropriate employment background checks for newly recruited staff.
• Ensuring all new staff have social security and medical registration and supervising the process by ensuring that necessary application forms are completed.

Training and Development:

• Assisting the HR Manager in leading Training Needs Analysis.
• Assisting the training team in the preparation, organization, and evaluation of various training sessions in the field.

HR Services:

Working closely with Accounts in payroll preparation.

• Managing leave and attendance of regional staff.
• Ensuring all staff have renewed contracts.
• Assisting the HR Manager in issuing and processing transfer proposals, transfer orders, and resignation letters.
• Handling employee relations issues in consultation with the HR Manager, including attending formal disciplinary hearings and issuing show cause notices.
• Maintaining and updating staff personal files.
• Assisting the HR Manager in managing the staff information system software (HRIS).
• Ensuring all staff are issued name tags and identity cards.

Human Resource Strategy:

• Organizing policy-sharing events periodically for concerned regional staff.
• Communicating gaps in various policies and processes and proposing possible solutions to HR strategy.
• Assisting in the Performance Management System, including staff objective setting in January, mid-term reviews, and year-end reviews.
• Supporting staff development activities, including promoting the BRAC Learning Catalogue.

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals on safeguarding implementation.
• Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote, and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident occurs and encourage others to do the same.

REQUIRED SKILLS/CAPACITY:

• Proven two years of experience as an HR officer, administrator, or other HR position.
• Knowledge of HR functions (pay & benefits, recruitment, training & development, etc.).
• Understanding of labor laws and disciplinary procedures.
• Proficiency in MS Office; knowledge of HRMS is required.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resource management/administration, industrial relations, law, or a relevant field.

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Contractual

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Candidates need to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary to: recruitment.tanzania@brac.net with the subject: HR OFFICER.

Only complete applications will be accepted, and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 7th June 2024

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation – regardless of age, race, religion, gender, status as an individual with a disability, or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records, and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.

BRAC is an equal opportunities employer